Adjustable spray-tip for atomizers and the like.



0. A. TATUM. ADJUSTABLE SPRAY TIP FOR ATOMIZERS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1913.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

WITNESSES lA/V'ENTOR 0mm 3 A. 771 TU) W By THE NORRIS PETERS CO, PHOTO LITHO.. \VASHINGION. D. C,

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'COMPANY, OF YORK, N. Y.', A. CORPORATION NEW JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE SPRAY-TIP ron aroiurznnsann are LIKE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. TATUM, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Middletown, county of Monmouth, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Spray-Tips for Atomizers and the like, of which the followin is a specification.

My invention relates to spray tips for atomizers and the like and has for its object to provide tips of this character which may be adjusted to throw the spray in a plurality of different directions and at different angles according to adjustment.

My improvement will be fully described hereinafter and the features of novelty Will be pointed out in the appended claims;

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which I I Figures 1 2 and 3 are detail sectional views illustrating my improved tip adjusted to different positions; Fig. 4 isan exterior View of said up; Fig. 5 is an end view thereof and Fig. 6 is aside elevation of an atomizer showing my improved tip applied thereto. I y A,

In the drawing my improved tip is shown applied to an atomizer of any ordinary construction which as usual comprises a receptacle 5 for the medicinal fluid or the like, the usual air tube 6 and bulb 7 being con nected with said receptacle in any cus tomary manner. lhe usual fluid conducting tube 8 extends through the air tube 6 and together therewith forms a spraying tube in the well known way.- ln the illustration the free end of the tube 6 is screwthreaded as indicated at (i to detachably receive the spray tip or nozzle. As shown in the drawings the said tip or nozzle comprises an-internally screw-threaded sleeve 9 adapted to be screwed upon the screwthreaded port'ionii, an annular shoulder or the like 10 on the tube 6 serving to limit the movement af said sleeve 9 upon the portion 6. p

A partition 11 is located in the sleeve 9 intermediate ofits ends and divides the same into two compartments 9 and 9 the tubes 6 andS extending into the chamber 9 which is connected with the chamber 9 by means ota channel 11 formed in the partition '11 as clearly shown in Fig. 1. A tubular section 12 extends into the'chamber 9 and is preferably rotatable therein any.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pgmtentgd D90, 15, 15591 Application filed November 25, 1913 Serial an. 02,252.

suitable means being provided to prevent relative movement between the sleeve 9 and section 12 in axial direction. For in stance an annular groove 12 may be formed on the section 12 and the end of the sleeve may be turned or bent inwardly to form an annular flange 9 extending into said groove, as illustrated in Fig. 1'. Thesection 12 is provided with an axial channel tial wall and ei'tending in a radial, direction from said chamber, while the outlet 1 reXtends in an axial direction therefrom and is eccentrically locatedin the end wall'12 A .cap 15 is rotatablymounted on the section 12 so as to. extend over the free end thereof and is .niaintained against removal from the section12 in axial'direction in any suitable manner as by turning the end "or said cap inwardly to form an annular flange 15 adapted tow'extend into anannular groove 132 locatedon the section 12. The cap 15 is provided in its circuniferential wall with a plurality of apertures 16 extending for instance in opposite directions and at different angles to the aizis of the cap 15 and each adapted to be brought into registry with the mantis as the said cap 15 is rotated upon the section 12. lhe cap 15 is further provided with an aperture 17 located eccentrically in the end wall 15 thereofand arranged to beybrought into registry with the'outlet ofthe chamber 12 througha proper manipulation of said cap 15. In order thatvit may beat once and readily a] )parent when one of the apertures 1.6 is in proper registry with theoutlet 13 or when the aperture 17 registers with the outlet 14: I provide indications 18 and 19 located respectively on the section 12 adjacent to the flange 15 and on the cap '15 at the flanged end thereof as shown in the tube 6 that the indication 18 of the section 15 is located at a point difiicult of ready Orrin.

It may be found, after the i observation, a condition which may be readily remedied by simply rotating the section 12 in the sleeve 9 until the said indi- 5 cation 18 is in a position where it is easily visible. To facilitate thisrotation of the section 12 relatively to the sleeve 9 I may provide said section 12 with an annular flange having its peripheral edge milled rotating the cap 15 upon the section 12 to bring any one of the apertures 16 into registry with the outlet 13, the spray may be thrown at various and different angles to the axis of the said cap 15 and in opposite directions either toward or away from the receptacle 5 and by bringing the aperture 17 into line with the outlet 14 that the spray may be thrown forward in a direction parallel with the axis of the cap 15. indications 19 in each instance cooperating with the indication 18 will quickly inform the userwhen the desired aperture is in proper registry with either the outlet .13 er The spray tip is thus easily and quickly adjusted to throw the spray in the particular direction most effective in each instance and does away with the necessity for substituting a different, specially constructed tipv or nozzle each time a particular direction of spray is desired. The field of usefulness for instanceof a given atomizer is thus materially increased and the necessary manipulation thereof is reduced to a minimum. I

it will of course be obvious that the outlets 13 and 11- and the apertures 16 and 17 coiiperating therewith may be arranged otherwise than as shown and that the chamber 12 may be provided with more than two outlets or that some of the apertures in the cap 15 may be omitted if desired. It is also to be understood that in some cases the outlet 13 may be brought into registry with an aperture 16 at the same time that the aperture 17 is in registry with the outlet Copies of this patentmay be obtained for The rently register with two different apertures 16. In addition to the above, various other changes may be made in the forms shown and described within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim: v 1. A spray tip for atomizers and the like comprising a head provided with a radially disposed outlet andan axially disposed outlet located eccentrically in the end wall of said head, a cap rotatably mounted on said head and having a plurality of differently disposed apertures adapted to register with said radial outlet and a single aperture adapted to register with said axial outletoutlet and an eccentrically located aperture adapted to register with said axial outlet whereby the direction of spray is varied, an indication on said rotatable'section and a plurality of indications on said cap corresponding to said apertures and adapted to cooperate with said first named indication to indicate a proper registration of said outlets and saidaperture's.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. TATUM.

lVitnesses v HORACE H. REDDY, IIENRY L. CONKLIN.

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